shortcut

Example Sentences

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Supplements can have a role in healthy ageing, but they are not a shortcut.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

Microsoft says it built the model "from scratch" with "no distillation" of rival models -- a common shortcut that involves copying a competitor's outputs to train a new system more cheaply and quickly.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Sweeping out everybody over a certain age is an administrative shortcut dressed up as a solution.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

For more than 40 years, train passengers arriving into Aberdeen looking for a shortcut into the city centre have faced a notoriously tiring 32-step climb.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Though, actually, the image of all three kids was largely hidden, because they had so many files and games and shortcut links strewn about the desktop.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix